Freshly harvested rhubarb, chopped and packaged into four-cup portions for freezing. A key step in our food preservation efforts, ensuring this vibrant, tart bounty can be enjoyed all year long.

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Rhubarb Rhapsody

May 31, 2025

There’s nothing quite like the vibrant, tart taste of freshly harvested rhubarb – a flavour that is both sharp and sweet, with a unique tang that brightens any dish.

Featured Community News and Stories

This 3D photogrammetry scan of Qaumajuq, the Inuit art centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, brings the intricate design and cultural significance of the space to virtual life.

Northern Art: Revolutionizing Preservation and Creation with LiDAR, 3D Photogrammetry, and Virtual Spaces

Imagine walking through a museum, but instead of navigating crowded hallways or worrying about the next tour group, you’re free to explore every nook and cranny from the comfort of your own home.

Jamie Bell March 25, 2025

Spring is just around the corner

Fall and Winter 2024-2025 arts incubator program coming to a close As winter winds down, we’ve been reflecting on everything we’ve learned and accomplished these

Tony Eetak March 21, 2025

Township Board Meeting Highlights

The Melgund LSB meeting approved the budget, awarded snow contracts, announced events, and sought volunteers for community roles, ensuring continued services and festive activities.

Digital Salvage March 20, 2025

Recreation, Culture and Creative Leadership

Why We Don’t Make TikToks

We get asked a lot: “Why aren’t you on TikTok?” or “Why don’t you post more content for social media?” It’s a fair question in

Jamie Bell April 19, 2025

Township Local Service Board Meeting Summary

The Melgund LSB meeting on December 16th included updates on correspondence, community activities, and by-laws, concluding with Games Night and Family Day plans.

Digital Salvage March 28, 2025

This week’s article explores the growing trend of self-managed arts spaces, highlighting best practices, challenges, and visions for a sustainable, non-hierarchical arts ecosystem. The future of artist-run initiatives is collaborative, resourceful, and empowering. Read on for lessons from successful collective-driven projects.

The Future of Self-Managed Arts: Lessons & Next Steps

The future of self-managed arts involves shifting to non-hierarchical structures, overcoming challenges, and building sustainable, inclusive creative ecosystems.

Jamie Bell March 25, 2025

Digital Arts and Artificial Intelligence

Digital Salvage is a Winnipeg-based arts collective and non-profit supporting community-rooted media, gallery, and digital art projects across Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. We offer mentorship, access to digital tools, and space for experimentation—especially where art, artificial intelligence, and cultural storytelling intersect. Through exhibitions, workshops, and collaborations, Digital Salvage builds creative infrastructure for emerging artists, Indigenous creators, and grassroots organizers working at the edges of art and technology.

Where Policy Ends and the Machine Begins

It ghosts through institutional memory, seeping into the cracks of bureaucracy, rewriting the script of policy with machine-touched hands. It does not answer questions—it reconfigures process, dissolving rigid workflows into liquid intelligence, bending the weight of administrative inertia into something fluid, responsive, alive.

Jamie Bell April 3, 2025

Building from the Ground Up

The Digital Salvage project is inherently grassroots in nature—modeled intentionally after frameworks common within innovative technology startups, small arts and culture-driven organizations, and highly community-based development programs.

Digital Salvage April 1, 2025

This project supported relationship development, consultation, and engagement actions to explore participatory food security research and food sector training opportunities with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Creative Entrepreneurship program. It supported research design to attract research investment to Manitoba and was led by youth from the Winnipeg-based Art Borups Corners project.

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

Digital Salvage is structured intentionally as an inclusive and interdisciplinary Arts-based Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) initiative, bringing together youth from northern regions and diverse creative communities in active co-creation of a powerful new technological resource.

Digital Salvage April 1, 2025

A Connected Community of Care and Practice for the Arts

Who will lead community recreation tomorrow? This article highlights the power of arts as a catalyst for developing youth leadership, ensuring a vibrant and dynamic recreation sector for years to come.

Township Holds Monthly Meeting Highlights

Melgund Township LSB meeting covered reappointments, infrastructure improvements, and events. Upcoming meetings: October 27th for budget, November 18th regular meeting. Public invited.

Tony Eetak March 20, 2025

Community members share a meal and conversation at the monthly gathering in Dyment on March 9, 2025.

Community Board Plans Summer Events

Melgund Township’s board discussed arts events, property concerns, and upcoming festivals. Ice Fishing Derby postponed; planning underway for Canada Day and August music festival.

Art Borups Corners March 19, 2025

Culturally Relevant Learning for Northern & Remote Communities

Culture as Curriculum: Empowering Indigenous Youth: Understand the critical importance of culturally relevant learning for Indigenous youth in northern communities. Tradition and heritage are key to leadership.

Digital Salvage March 14, 2025

Dyment and Borups Corners Planning

Residents of Dyment and Borups Corners gathered to discuss local happenings, future arts initiatives, and plans for spring and summer community events.

Art Borups Corners March 12, 2025

Leading the Way: The future of recreation depends on nurturing young leaders today. This article looks into how arts-based recreation programs are building essential leadership skills in youth, creating a vital pipeline for the next generation of community champions.

Addressing Systemic Barriers in Recreation

Arts-based recreation programs offer innovative strategies to dismantle these barriers and create more equitable and welcoming community spaces.

Digital Salvage March 12, 2025

The Importance of Formal Learning

Beyond passion, leadership requires strategy. Explore how formal education empowers young creatives with essential skills in management, policy, and more. Part 3 shows how academic learning builds bridges for youth leadership.

Jamie Bell March 6, 2025

Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

Come Eat With Me Manitoba is a groundbreaking AI-powered cookbook featuring a new Manitoba-inspired recipe every week. Developed by Indigenous youth, this project blends food security, culinary innovation, digital storytelling, participatory media arts, and AI-generated food imagery to create a dynamic and interactive food experience. Each recipe highlights locally sourced, sustainable, and traditional Indigenous ingredients, bridging the past and future through youth-led research, community-driven food sovereignty, and digital literacy in the culinary arts. By harnessing AI-generated food art and prompt engineering, this initiative empowers young creators to explore recipe development, nutrition education, sustainable cooking practices, and the intersection of technology and Indigenous food traditions. Featuring wild game, freshwater fish, prairie-grown grains, foraged berries, and farm-to-table produce, this evolving cookbook supports Manitoba food heritage, eco-conscious eating, and digital-first culinary storytelling. With a strong focus on interactive learning, visual storytelling, and food equity, Come Eat With Me Manitoba invites readers to discover the vibrant flavors of the province while supporting youth innovation, AI-driven creativity, and culturally rooted food experiences.

Manitoba Food, Art Project Launches Online Cookbook

Discover Come Eat With Me Manitoba, a groundbreaking cookbook featuring weekly Manitoba recipes, AI-generated art, participatory media arts, food security, inspiring storytelling, cooking, product development, photography, and Indigenous culinary heritage.

Digital Salvage February 22, 2025

For this week's AI Food Prompt series, we showcase a seared caribou loin resting atop fire-roasted wild rice, drizzled with smoked juniper reduction. Crisped cattail hearts and velvety sweetgrass butter bring texture and depth to this modern take on Northern Canadian flavors.

Caribou Medallions with Wild Rice Pilaf and Black Currant Reduction

Savor the rich flavors of Manitoba with this week’s AI Food Prompt Fridays—fire-roasted wild rice and caribou loin, topped with a smoked juniper glaze. We showcase a new image and recipe every week!

Jamie Bell February 22, 2025

For this week's AI Food Prompt series, we reimagine a Canadian classic with bison, wild mushrooms, and a tangy elderberry-chili jam filling inside crispy, golden pizza pops. A flavorful and fun fusion dish!

Bison and Wild Mushroom Pizza Pops with Elderberry Jam

AI Food Prompt Fridays is back with a twist! Bison-filled pizza pops with wild mushrooms and elderberry chili jam. A truly unique Canadian treat!

Jamie Bell February 11, 2025

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